Primary Job Title Distinguished Professor & Founder of Flashpoint Primary Organization Georgia Institute of Technology
Location Atlanta, Georgia, United States Regions Greater Atlanta Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Merrick holds an endowed chair as Georgia Institute of Technology’s first “Distinguished Professor of Computing” and is an associate dean in the College of Computing. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Merrick was the founder and CEO of Essential Surfing Gear, an Internet software company that provided technology to bring information to people as they
browsed the World Wide Web. Merrick grew the company to 53 employees with customers including Barnes and Noble, CNET and MySimon, until the company was sold in 2001. Merrick was also a tenured computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley where he served as president and director of the International Computer Science Institute, helping to establish its Center for Internet Research. Prior to Berkeley, Merrick was a tenured professor and associate dean in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Merrick is the author of over 25 articles and books, inventor on two U.S. patents, recipient of the first Presidential Young Investigator Award and creator of multiple commercially-successful software artifacts including electronic post-it notes, which were best-sellers on PCs.
